Antony and the Johnsons' "Cut the World" Video Coming to Pitchfork.tv on YouTube Next Week

Featuring Willem Dafoe, Marina Abramović, and Carice van Houten

On Monday, August 6, Pitchfork.tv on YouTube will premiere the music video for "Cut the World", the previously unreleased title track from Antony and the Johnsons' upcoming live album, out August 6 on Rough Trade in the UK and August 7 through Secretly Canadian in the U.S. The video was directed by NABIL, who has directed videos for Kanye West ("Mercy", "Coldest Winter"), Bon Iver ("Towers", "Holocene"), Frank Ocean ("Swim Good", "Novacane"), and many more.

"Cut the World" was originally written for the opera The Life and Death of Marina Abramović. Performance artist Abramović appears in the "Cut the World" video, along with actor Willem Dafoe (the Spider-Man trilogy, The Last Temptation of Christ), and actress Carice van Houten ("Game of Thrones", Valkyrie).

The above image is a screenshot from the video, featuring Dafoe. Below, find another screen shot featuring van Houten.

The "Cut the World" video will screen on August 11 at the Southbank Centre in London, as part of the Meltdown Festival curated by Antony Hegarty. It will proceed a screening of the film "Turning", a collaboration between Antony and video artist Charles Atlas. Other artists performing at Meltdown, which is going on right now, include Abramović, the Cocteau Twins' Elizabeth Fraser, Laurie Anderson, CocoRosie, Hercules and Love Affair, and more. Read our interview with Antony about Meltdown here.